Openness: A sociological, psychological, legal and technological movement

Openness

• A sociological, psychological, legal and technological movement.

Open Scholars are Transparent

The ability to view and share thoughts, actions, resources, ideas and interests of others.

“radically increase learner awareness of others’ learning activities in the PLE”

Marc van Harmelen Manchester PLE

Dalsgaard, C., & Paulsen, M. (2009) Transparency in Cooperative Online Education

Open Scholar

• “the Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it--at any stage of its development”. – Gideon Burton Academic Evolution

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Open Scholars Create:

• A new type of education work maximizing:– Social learning– Media richness– Participatory and connectivist pedagogies– Ubiquity and persistence– Open data collection and research process– Creating connections

Open Scholars Use and Contribute Open Educational Resources

Because it saves time!!!

Open Scholars Self Archive

Quality scholarship is peer and public reviewed, accessible, persistent syndicated, commented and transparent.

Open Scholars Openly Apply their research

Open Scholars do Open Research

• Open Notebook: a laboratory notebook that is freely available and indexed on common search engines. …it is essential that all of the information available to the researchers to make their conclusions is equally available to the rest of the world.

• —Jean-Claude Bradley

Open Scholars Filter and Share With Others

Open Scholars support emerging Open Learning alternatives

Open Scholars Publish in Open Access Journals

• Open Access Journals have increased citation ratings:– Work in progress with Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Ferne

University, Germany– Analysis of Google citations for 12 Distance Education

Journals (using Harzing’s Publish or Perish tool)– 6 open access, 6 commercially published– Early results show roughly equal citations/paper, but

recent gains in citations by open access journals

Open Scholars comment openly on the works of others

• Bookmarking and Annotation add value• Cite-u-like, Brainify, Diigo, Delicious etc• VLE additions like Margenalia.

Open Scholars Lobby for Copyright Reform

Source: swiss-copyright.ch

Open Scholars Assign Open Textbooks

Open Scholars Induce Open Students

• Students as co-creators• Students gaining experience as writers,

authors and teachers• Getting over the use, but don’t

contribute barrier• Students engaged in meaningful work• Extensive literature on value of peer

instruction - especially for gifted students

• Empowering learners as future teachers

Open Scholars Teach Open Courses

Alec Cuoros Open Access Course: Social Media & Open Education (Fall 2009)

George Siemens & Stephen Downes

Introduction au technologie émergentesDave Cormier

Open Scholars Build Networks

Open Scholars are Change Agents

• Open scholars develop tools and techniques to help cross-pollination, sustain and grow effective learning networks.

From (Looi 2001).

Conclusion

• “Open Access is more than a new model for scholarly publishing, it is the only ethical move available to scholars who take their own work seriously enough to believe its value lies in how well it engages many publics and not just a few peers.”

• Gideon Burton, Academic Evolution Blog